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TIL that there’s a ghost city in Cyprus that no one has been allowed to enter for over 35 years.

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w7n7 TIL Giant, 50-Pound European catfish beach themselves in order to capture and eat pigeons.
0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
1avxP TIL about the "Bielefeld conspiracy", that says the German city Bielefeld doesn't exist. This story was created by students in 1994 as an internet post, to show the spreading and argumentation of conspiracy theories. Today it is a longtime running gang in whole Germany.
4wRo TIL Hannibal Lecter was making a medical joke with his famous “ate his liver with fava beans and a nice chianti” line: three foods that interact negatively with older kinds of antidepressant meds are liver, beans and wine.
x65Do TIL First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’